The Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice (EM:IP) Cover Graphic/Data Visualization Competition is back for its fifth year running. We’ve hoped you enjoyed seeing and reading about the winning submissions in EM:IP issues this year.

Winning Entries: Submissions were due by Friday, February 2, 2018. The winning submission(s) will be printed on a future cover of an EM:IP issue. Other strong submissions may be published online or saved for future issues. We will announce the winner(s) at the 2018 NCME conference during the NCME Breakfast meeting.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who can submit?
Any NCME members
Submissions can be created by individuals or groups of individuals

What to submit?
• List of submitters’ names and affiliations
• Title of graphic/data visualization
• PDF versions of graphic in color. Please note that the graphic cannot have been previously published anywhere else.
• For a sampling of previous submissions, check out the Gallery of Top Submissions for the 2016 Cover Graphic/Data Visualization Competition in the Summer 2016 Issue of EM:IP (Vol 35, Issue 2).
• Short description (300 words max) of graphic. (See previous issues’ editorials for examples.)
• A one-sentence caption of graphic.

Who will review the submissions and select the winner(s)?
The EM:IP Editorial Board

Winners will be selected based on the following criteria:
Originality of graphic,
Visual appeal of graphic,
Extent graphic stands alone and tell its own story,
Extent graphic relates to educational measurement and policy issues and/or provides a novel visual tool to use in practice, and
Extent description is clear and provides thoughtful analysis of the figure.